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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.Showing Quotes on virtue
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on virtue
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When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad onesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on virtue
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth muchShowing Quotes on virtue
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorumShowing Quotes on virtue
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heavenShowing Quotes on virtue
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The vices of some men are magnificentShowing Quotes on virtue
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisShowing Quotes on virtue
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of womenShowing Quotes on virtue
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who praysShowing Quotes on virtue
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.Showing Quotes on virtue
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And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we prayShowing Quotes on virtue
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My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of meShowing Quotes on virtue
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual haremShowing Quotes on virtue
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The more refined one is, the more unhappyShowing Quotes on virtue
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The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteemShowing Quotes on virtue
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.Showing Quotes on virtue
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soulShowing Quotes on virtue
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the fatherShowing Quotes on virtue
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.Showing Quotes on virtue
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There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purestShowing Quotes on virtue
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The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!Showing Quotes on virtue
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too lateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the lastShowing Quotes on virtue
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonizationShowing Quotes on virtue
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harmShowing Quotes on virtue
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of goodShowing Quotes on virtue
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Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!Showing Quotes on virtue
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None but blockheads copy each otherShowing Quotes on virtue
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God onlyShowing Quotes on virtue
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Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rulesShowing Quotes on virtue
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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.Showing Quotes on virtue
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The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be goodShowing Quotes on virtue
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The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evilShowing Quotes on virtue
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Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledgeShowing Quotes on virtue
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherShowing Quotes on virtue
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the worldShowing Quotes on virtue
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Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudiceShowing Quotes on virtue
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous manShowing Quotes on virtue
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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their countryShowing Quotes on virtue
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityShowing Quotes on virtue
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corruptShowing Quotes on virtue
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Morality is a private and costly luxuryShowing Quotes on virtue
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Great necessities call out great virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?Showing Quotes on virtue
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizensShowing Quotes on virtue
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of menShowing Quotes on virtue
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at allShowing Quotes on virtue
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Fortune and love favor the braveShowing Quotes on virtue
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The home is the chief school of human virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discoveredShowing Quotes on virtue
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Peace is rarely denied to the peacefulShowing Quotes on virtue
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good onesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinatesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of moralityShowing Quotes on virtue
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common senseShowing Quotes on virtue
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtuesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Happiness is a virtue, not its rewardShowing Quotes on virtue
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heartShowing Quotes on virtue
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Rare is the union of beauty and purityShowing Quotes on virtue
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Goodness is beauty in the best estateShowing Quotes on virtue
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Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shamelessShowing Quotes on virtue
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Patience is a virtueShowing Quotes on virtue
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Few people know how to be oldShowing Quotes on virtue
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I can resist everything except temptationShowing Quotes on virtue
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyShowing Quotes on virtue
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beautiesShowing Quotes on virtue
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Few man have virtue to withstand the highest bidderShowing Quotes on virtue
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It is better to lose your time than to lose your characterShowing Quotes on virtue
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I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you.Showing Quotes on virtue
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The almighty Lord set two targets for me: the abolishment of slavery and the reformation of mannersShowing Quotes on virtue
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards othersShowing Quotes on virtue
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Showing Quotes on virtue
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connectedShowing Quotes on virtue
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselvesShowing Quotes on virtue
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religionShowing Quotes on virtue
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If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivationShowing Quotes on virtue
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a livingShowing Quotes on virtue
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living wellShowing Quotes on virtue
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I may be no better than other people, but at least I am differentShowing Quotes on virtue
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